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April 27, 1941
Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
What is this article about?
Poet William Stanley Braithwaite recounts in his PHYLON autobiography a childhood fight where he violently defends his mother's neatly polished shoes from a schoolmate's mud, symbolizing violated maternal sanctity.
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Braithwaite
Recalls
Fight
Over Nicely Polished Shoes
Famed Poet Is
Speaks At Mt. Moriah Today
Telling Life's
Story in Phylon
When William Stanley Braithwaite was a small boy his mother used to dress him so neatly and meticulously that the other school boys had a good time peering at him and knocking him around. They went too far, however, when one day one of them muddied his nicely polished shoes. Braithwaite was suddenly aroused and went after the boy in good slugging fashion.
He says in the second installment of his autobiography published in the current issue of PHYLON, the Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture, second quarter: "For the soiling of my clean shoes I cared nothing, but the act had violated a sanctity, blasphemed at the altar of a boy's Jove for his mother, desecrated what her hands had created, and my whole inner being exploded with rage; it consumed me with such fierce heat that without thought or hesitation, I struck George full in the face with all the strength of the passion I felt. Blow after blow rained from my fists upon the unsuspecting boy, and I was totally unaware of what I was doing until I saw blood gushing from his nose."
The whole installment is depicting the life of one of our leading literary men.
Recalls
Fight
Over Nicely Polished Shoes
Famed Poet Is
Speaks At Mt. Moriah Today
Telling Life's
Story in Phylon
When William Stanley Braithwaite was a small boy his mother used to dress him so neatly and meticulously that the other school boys had a good time peering at him and knocking him around. They went too far, however, when one day one of them muddied his nicely polished shoes. Braithwaite was suddenly aroused and went after the boy in good slugging fashion.
He says in the second installment of his autobiography published in the current issue of PHYLON, the Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture, second quarter: "For the soiling of my clean shoes I cared nothing, but the act had violated a sanctity, blasphemed at the altar of a boy's Jove for his mother, desecrated what her hands had created, and my whole inner being exploded with rage; it consumed me with such fierce heat that without thought or hesitation, I struck George full in the face with all the strength of the passion I felt. Blow after blow rained from my fists upon the unsuspecting boy, and I was totally unaware of what I was doing until I saw blood gushing from his nose."
The whole installment is depicting the life of one of our leading literary men.
What sub-type of article is it?
Biography
What themes does it cover?
Family
Bravery Heroism
What keywords are associated?
Braithwaite Autobiography
Childhood Fight
Polished Shoes
Mother's Care
What entities or persons were involved?
William Stanley Braithwaite
George
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William Stanley Braithwaite
George
Story Details
As a boy, William Stanley Braithwaite fiercely fights a schoolmate who muddies his polished shoes, defending the sanctity of his mother's careful dressing.